Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

Twohig, Peter L.

doi:10.7202/800441ar

scientia

2009

DOI: 10.7202/800441ar

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Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

Peter L. Twohig

Abstract: These are halcyon days for health care history in Canada. One routinely sees articles pertaining to health in leading Canadian and international history journals. The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History is a vibrant and important vehicle and there are a growing number of monographs. This essay reviews several of the maturing content areas that now characterize the writing of health history in Canada, including hospital history, nursing history, the history of mental health, and health and medicine in aborigin… Show more

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Emerging Scholarship in Nursing History

Toman

Stuart

2004

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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These are dynamic times for nursing history in Canada, as this special issue of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History demonstrates. Twenty years ago, scholars sought to create one professional identity and one homogenous historical story while current historians of nursing understand that profession to be more diverse and more complex. Emerging scholarship situates itself increasingly within mainstream histories and the subfield of women's history. The articles and book reviews represent a wide range of research interests and approaches, as well as regions outside of Ontario and central Canada. They reveal increasing diversity of primary sources, increasing use of analytical concepts, and fascinating new directions for analyzing practice as authors address questions such as: Who could legitimately claim to be a nurse, what is nursing practice, and what is health care? While these trends are encouraging, significant gaps remain in nursing historiography, and nursing practice continues to be ignored or marginalized with the wider body of health care historiography.

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Emerging Scholarship in Nursing History

Toman

Stuart

2004

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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A Little East of Eden: Re-Placing Canada’s Public Health History

Jenkins¹

2017

Journal of Canadian Studies

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Histories of public health reform in Canada rarely mention New Brunswick, even though its innovative Department of Health, established in 1918, was the first full ministry of health in Canada. This paper traces the institutionalization of this public health reform by a small group of New Brunswick physicians, united by their immersion in American medical training and innovative public health ideologies. It reframes explanations of the rise of public health reform in Canada by widening an explanatory lens to encompass the exclusive influence of American models of disease and public health. It also breaks a negative regional stereotype of New Brunswick by highlighting the potential for reform and innovation in small and ostensibly less modern regions.

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Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

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Emerging Scholarship in Nursing History

Emerging Scholarship in Nursing History

A Little East of Eden: Re-Placing Canada’s Public Health History

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